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I might have overcooked this one in darktable lol

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Well hooray to your darktable skills because this came out really well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks! Darktable is great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The landscape in your photo immediately reminded me of a photo I took in 2014, although I'm betting that yours was taken much closer to Phoenix than mine was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Nice! I took my shot on Mt Lemmon in Tucson.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 40 minutes ago

Shout out to Mount Lemmon! Took a budding romantic interest up there to camp one time. We had such a memorable experience. Once it got dark we wandered around looking at the stars, only to stumble on a vacant boyscout camp. I miss you Ashley, RIP <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Great shot !

I might have overcooked this one in darktable lol

Yeah a bit (sky saturation)

You could also add a bit of contrast and lightness to the moon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks! Yeah, I maybe should have went harder on the contrast instead of the saturation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The image compression isn't helping either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I guess it's just so that the image doesn't take up that much space on their instance (storage is expensive and inflexible in VPSs)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yep, I noticed when I upload large images they never get many upvotes. I think pawb has slow bandwidth and people don't want to wait for a large image to download.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Ah gotcha, it's good to not overload the instance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Great shot!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

That’s pretty amazing. Where is this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks! Mt Lemmon in Tucson, AZ.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Looks like Arizona to me